Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.
Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.
We’re looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager, Core Technologies to join our Hardware TPM team. This role focuses on maturing emerging technologies ahead of productization so they can be transferred into future NPI programs. You will lead multiple fast-moving initiatives across multiple system technologies leveraging your previous experience across component, module and system work in any number of engineering domains, .
This role will be located in or near Oulu, Finland with in-office collaboration required, along with global travel to other offices and suppliers as needed.
What you will do- Lead multiple core technology initiatives, driving technical feasibility, risk reduction, and readiness for transfer into NPI programs
- Partner closely with senior engineers, designers, supply managers, and other cross-functional leaders across mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, science, sensing, silicon, materials, design, and adjacent spaces
- Define scope, objectives, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and success criteria for each initiative
- Establish development plans, decision points, and readiness criteria that clarify when a technology is ready to enter product development
- Drive cross-functional alignment across all teams
- Identify and mitigate technical, supply, schedule, and integration risks early to reduce downstream NPI risk
- Lead early prototype builds, feasibility experiments, design-of-experiments, and other learning cycles needed to mature technologies
- Provide clear program reporting on status, risks, decisions, open questions, and resource needs
- Support external partners and vendors delivering development work or early capability builds where applicable
- Help define and refine the core technology development process, including how technologies are incubated, matured, and transferred into NPI teams
- Foster strong execution, open communication, and a collaborative, high-accountability working environment
We would love to have you on our team if you have:
- 10+ years of experience leading complex cross-functional engineering or technology development efforts across disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, firmware, science, systems, manufacturing, and supply chain
- Strong experience with new technologies, difficult integrations, or early-stage development programs
- Demonstrated ability to lead work ahead of formal productization, including structuring ambiguous problems, planning technical work, and defining readiness
- Experience driving multiple initiatives in parallel across different timelines, maturity levels, and stakeholder groups
- Strong understanding of workflows and dependencies within and across engineering disciplines
- Experience with phase-gated or maturity-based development models, including defining entry and exit criteria and the evidence needed for progression
- Experience planning and executing design-of-experiments, prototypes, and learning cycles to inform technical decisions
- Strong program management judgment, including prioritization, risk management, issue resolution, and executive communication
- Proficiency with tools such as Linear, Confluence, and Smartsheet
- Ability to build and improve processes and workflows
- Curiosity, adaptability, and comfort operating in fast-moving environments
- Willingness to travel up to 25–30% of the time
- Competitive salary
- Lunch benefit
- Wellness benefit
- Flexible working hours
- Wellness Time Off
- Enhanced occupational health care
- Personal Oura Ring plus lifetime membership
If this sounds like the next step for you, please send us your application and CV as soon as possible. Due to the holiday season, there are some delays in the application process during July 2026. We will continue reviewing applications throughout the holiday period, but most of interviews will happen in August.
Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years leading complex cross-functional engineering or technology development across electrical, mechanical, firmware, systems, manufacturing, and supply chain
- Strong experience with new technologies, difficult integrations, or early-stage development programs
- Proven ability to lead work ahead of formal productization, structure ambiguous problems, plan technical work, and define readiness
- Experience driving multiple initiatives in parallel across different timelines, maturity levels, and stakeholder groups
- Strong understanding of workflows and dependencies within and across engineering disciplines
- Experience with phase-gated or maturity-based development models, defining entry/exit criteria and required evidence
- Experience planning and executing design-of-experiments, prototypes, and learning cycles to inform technical decisions
- Strong program management judgment including prioritization, risk management, issue resolution, and executive communication
- Proficiency with tools such as Linear, Confluence, and Smartsheet
- Ability to build and improve processes and workflows
- Curiosity, adaptability, and comfort operating in fast-moving environments
- Located in or near Oulu, Finland with in-office collaboration required
- Willingness to travel up to 25-30% of the time
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The package includes substantial PTO, paid holidays, and dedicated wellness days that together exceed a basic time‑off offering. This breadth of time away supports recovery and balance.
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What We Do
Oura is an award-winning and fast-growing startup that helps people track all stages of sleep and activity using the Oura Ring and connected app. By providing daily feedback and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles, we've helped hundreds of thousands of people improve their sleep, understand their bodies, and transform their health. We’re on a mission to empower every person to own their inner potential, and we’re seeking talented individuals to join us on our journey. JOIN THE OURA TEAM Oura is full of skilled experts and we’re known to share a good laugh every now and then. We always strive to learn more and dig deeper into our research and analytics, to stay engaged and creative in everything we do. We respect our partners, privacy and the scientific method. We are a multi-disciplinary team of over 100 experts in hardware engineering, software development, machine learning, bioscience, sleep, industrial and UX design, production, marketing and customer experience. Oura Health Ltd.’s HQ and major manufacturing facilities are located in Oulu, Finland. Other locations include Helsinki and San Francisco.
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